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SUMMARY:One Hot Poetry Share
DESCRIPTION:It’s so darn hot that even the poetry is sizzling! \nOn Wednesday\, August 16 from 6:30 – 8:00pm\, join writer and poet Arianna Alexsandra Collins of Offerings for Community Building for an evening of speaking your truth through poetry. August’s Poetry Share challenge is to find and read your poems that illustrate summer\, hot weather\, and passion. Or if you’re feeling too darn hot read a poem that involves ways to cool down. (And if you don’t have any poems\, read someone else’s.) \nWine and chocolate will be served. \nHeld in the Belding Memorial Library Meeting Room\, 344 Main St.\, Ashfield\, MA \nThis program is free and open to the public. Please register by contacting Belding Memorial Library at bmlashfield@gmail.com or 413-628-4414. \nSponsored by Belding Memorial Library and Straw Dog Writers Guild. \nBio: Arianna Alexsandra Collins: Naturalist. Writer. Poet. Wild Edibles Enthusiast. Arianna holds a M.S. in Environmental Administration and has over twenty years of experience in teaching\, community engagement\, and public ritual. She is a writer and poet and has a bi-monthly column “Into the Outside” in The Ashfield News. She has featured articles on learning wild edible and medicinal flora in MassWildlife\, Ecological Landscape Alliance\, and Northern Woodlands. You can find examples of her poetry and articles on her blog Hearken to Avalon. She is also the author of the historical fantasy novel Hearken to Avalon. Through her business Offerings for Community Building she offers a variety of services in community engagement activities\, outdoor immersion experiences\, and administrative support.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/one-hot-poetry-share
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Poetry Share
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SUMMARY:March Madness Poetry Share
DESCRIPTION:March Madness Poetry Share\nWednesday\, March 29\, 6:30-8pm\nHares are getting frisky. Owls are hooting up a storm. Humans are getting stuck in the mud. Meanwhile there is poetry to be shared!\nJoin writer and poet Arianna Alexsandra Collins of Offerings for Community Building for an evening of speaking your truth through poetry. The goblet has been thrown down\, wine spilling across the table cloth\, and we dare you to find and read your racy\, spring-beckoning\, rich & loamy poems. (And you don’t have any\, read someone else’s.) Wine and chocolate will be served. \nHeld in the Belding Memorial Library Meeting Room. 344 Main St.\, Ashfield\, MA\nThis program is free and open to the public. Please register by contacting Belding Memorial Library at bmlashfield@gmail.com or 413-628-4414.\nSponsored by Belding Memorial Library and Straw Dog Writers Guild
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/march-madness-poetry-share
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Poetry Share,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230121T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230121T150000
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SUMMARY:Comes the Dark Poetry Share
DESCRIPTION:Come share winter and darkness-themed poems. This can be your own work or favorite poems by others.\nHerbal brews and treats will be provided.\nHeld in the Belding Memorial Library Meeting Room in Ashfield\, MA. (Main Street/Rt 116) on Saturday\, January 21\, from 1:30-3:00pm. Registration requested. Call 413-628-4414 or email bmlashfield@gmail.com.\nFacilitated by Poet Arianna Alexsandra Collins of Offerings for Community Building. Sponsored by Belding Memorial Library and Straw Dog Writers Guild.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/comes-the-dark-poetry-share
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221001T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221001T150000
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SUMMARY:Fall Harvest Poetry Share
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, October 1\, from 1:30-3:00pm for a Fall Harvest Poetry Share. We will circle up and share autumn-themed poems at Belding Memorial Library in Ashfield\, MA. This can be your own work or favorite work by others. Weather permitting\, we will be outside under a tent. Refreshments will be provided. (Arianna\, your SDWG admin\, always brings a sampling of her wild-crafted herbal teas.)\nThe Library is located at: 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, MA \nThis is event is co-facilitated by Belding Memorial Library\, Offerings for Community Building\,  and Straw Dog Writers Guild. \nTo register for this free program contact Belding Memorial Library:\n413-628-4414 bmlashfield@gmail.com \nThis free program is brought to you with grant funding. American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grants for Libraries is an initiative of the American Library Association (ALA) made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/fall-harvest-poetry-share
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Share,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220813T150000
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SUMMARY:Summer Poetry Share
DESCRIPTION:Join Arianna Alexsandra Collins\, SDWG admin and business owner of Offerings for Community Building\, for a summertime poetry share on Saturday\, August 13\, 1:30-3:00pm at the Belding Memorial Library in Ashfield. We will circle up\, share summertime themed poems – this can be your own work or favorite work by others –  and sip sun-tea! Weather permitting\, we will be outside under the tent. This event is co-facilitated and sponsored by Belding Memorial Library\, Offerings for Community Building\, and Straw Dog Writers Guild. \nTo register\, contact Belding Memorial Library: email bmlashfield@gmail.com or call 413-628-4414 to reserve a spot. Belding Memorial Library is located at 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, MA \nThis event is brought to you free with grant funding from the American Rescue Plan. The Humanities Grants for Libraries is an initiative of the American Library Association (ALA) made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/summer-poetry-share
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220416T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220416T150000
DTSTAMP:20260613T114011
CREATED:20220408T163441Z
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SUMMARY:Spring Tonic Poetry Share
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Spring Tonic Poetry Share with Poet Arianna Alexsandra Collins on Saturday April 16\, 1:30 – 3:00pm. \nWe will welcome in spring with the auditory tonic of listening to one another read poetry while sipping ephemeral teas. We are sharing poetry inspired by spring – this can be your own work or favorite work by others. We will gather in a circle outside behind Belding Memorial Library in Ashfield\, MA. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Offerings for Community Building and Straw Dog Writers Guild and hosted at the Belding Memorial Library in Ashfield\, MA. \nTo Register\, please contact Belding Memorial Library at: 413-628-4414 or bmlashfield@gmail.com. \nThe Library is located at 344 Main Street\, Ashfield.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/spring-tonic-poetry-share
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events for Members,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200503T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200503T160000
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SUMMARY:ZOOM - Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Chris O’Carroll
DESCRIPTION:We will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns\nvia Zoom on May 3\, 2-4 p.m.\nHere’s how it works: To attend\, email Jane Roy Brown for a link to the meeting: brownjaneroy@gmail.com.  You can sign up for Zoom video conferencing for free HERE. \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown \n \nFeatured Reader: Chris O’Carroll is the author The Joke’s on Me (White Violet Press\, 2019).  He is a Light magazine featured poet whose work has appeared The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology\, Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle\, New York City Haiku\, and Poems for a Liminal Age\, among other collections.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-chris-ocarroll
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Writers Read/Hilltown
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200405T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200405T160000
DTSTAMP:20260613T114011
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Jan Maher
DESCRIPTION:We will meet in the Virtual Hilltowns\nvia Zoom on April 5\, 2-4 p.m.\nHere’s how it works: To attend\, email Jane Roy Brown for a link to the meeting: brownjaneroy@gmail.com.  You can sign up for Zoom video conferencing for free HERE. \nHosted by Jane Roy Brown  \nJan Maher’s writing credits include two novels\, Heaven\, Indiana and Earth As It Is; one-act plays Ismene and Intruders; Most Dangerous Women; and books for educators Most Dangerous Women: Bringing History to Life through Readers’ Theater; and History in the Present Tense: Engaging Students through Inquiry and Action (co-authored with Douglas Selwyn). \nShe holds a doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies: Theater\, Education\, and Neuroscience. She most recently taught interdisciplinary seminars\, education-related courses\, and documentary studies at Burlington College at the undergraduate and graduate levels and is currently a senior scholar at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life\, State University of New York at Plattburgh. \nShe lives with her husband Doug Selwyn in Greenfield\, MA. \n\n\n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-jan-maher
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200301T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200301T160000
DTSTAMP:20260613T114011
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200214T133738Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Read - Featured Reader Faith Kindness
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers\, who can read for five minutes each; we also draw two names for 10-minute readings. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 2:15.\n\n\nLong-time resident of Western Massachusetts\, Faith Dickhaut Kindness is a visual artist\, teacher\, former librarian\, and writer whose memoir in poetry is entitled The Art of Waiting.  \n“In the late 60s during the Vietnam War\,” she writes\, “I was a young wife on Okinawa. The subject matter of The Art of Waiting is based on two years in her twenties when life took a direction she hadn’t previously encountered and she simultaneously faced two unknown mindsets – that of the military and that of living in a foreign culture.  \nWhen we first arrived back in the U.S. people weren’t ready to hear the stories I was bursting to tell. Writing this book became a cathartic journey that has “released my psyche to heal.” The book is organized in roughly chronological sections with headings like a symphony. Theme and variation twine through the pages that cover the loneliness of separation\, being reunited abroad but not having what military brass considered a necessary function\, my questioning what the U.S. was doing in what felt an unpopular war\, and lingering effects of that experience after returning home. \nHer work has been published in Equinox\, Wise Woman Journal\, and Silkworm as well as being included in the Straw Dog Writers Guild anthology Compass Roads. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-featured-reader-faith-kindness
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Suzanne S. Rancourt
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers\, who can read for five minutes each; we also draw two names for 10-minute readings. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 2:15. \nMs. Rancourt\, Abenaki/Huron descent\, is a multi-modal Expressive Arts Therapist and CASAC with degrees in psychology\, and creative writing.  Her book\, Billboard in the Clouds\, Curbstone Press\, (now in its 2nd print at NU Press\,) received the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award. Her 2nd\, murmurs at the gate\, Unsolicited Press\, released in 2019. Ms. Rancourt’s work is internationally published.  She is a USMC and Army Veteran who continues to serve as a Mentor for the Saratoga County Veterans’ Peer to Peer program. To view Ms. Rancourt’s philosophies\, practices\, creative works\, please visit her website: www.expressive-arts.com \n  \n . 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-suzanne-s-rancourt
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Libby Maxey
DESCRIPTION:Libby Maxey\, of Conway\, MA\, is a senior editor at the online journal Literary Mama; she also edits for Amherst College and as a freelancer. She reviews poetry for The Mom Egg Review and Solstice\, and her own poems have appeared in Crannóg\, Kestrel\, Naugatuck River Review\, Pirene’s Fountain\, Emrys and elsewhere. Her first chapbook\, Kairos\, won Finishing Line Press’s 2018 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition. Locally\, she has won both the Poet’s Seat Poetry Contest and the Robert P. Collén Poetry Contest\, and her work was selected for the Northampton Arts Council’s 2017 Visual Arts and Poetry Biennial. Her nonliterary activities include singing classical repertoire and mothering two sons.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-libby-maxey
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191201T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader: Alexis Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Alexis Johnson is co-founder and was Executive Director of International Language Institute for 31 years.  Her undergraduate degree in in languages and linguistics. Her double masters is in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and Teaching Spanish. Before that she lived and taught in Barcelona for 9 years.  Her first book\,Playing With A Full Deck\, is a wry look at her experiences in 52 short essays. \n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-alexis-johnson
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190602T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190602T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Mary Clare Powell
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers\, who can read for five minutes each; we also draw two names for 10-minute readings. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 2:15. \nFeatured Reader Dr. Mary Clare Powell taught for 30 years at Lesley University (Cambridge\, MA) in the Creative Arts in Learning program\, a Master’s program for teachers. She has published books on women and the future; the arts\, education\, and social change; and two books of poetry–Things Owls AteandAcademic Scat—and two chapbooks–In the Living Room\,andBox of Water. Everyday Ecstasy is her collection of poems about aging\, which she has found to be rich\, stimulating\, and even fun\, in spite of losses of all kinds.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-mary-clare-powell
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190505T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190505T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Joshua Michael Stewart
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers\, who can read for five minutes each; we also draw two names for 10-minute readings. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 2:15. \nFeatured Reader – Joshua Michael Stewart has had poems published in the Massachusetts Review\, Louisville Review\, Rattle\, Night Train\, Evansville Review\, Cold Mountain Review\, and many others. His first full-length collection of poems\, Break Every String\, was published by Hedgerow Books in April 2016. He received his BA from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, and lives in Ware\, Massachusetts. He’s a Teacher/Counselor\, working with individuals with special needs. Visit him at www.joshuamichaelstewart.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-joshua-michael-stewart
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Gail Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers\, who can read for five minutes each; we also draw two names for 10-minute readings. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 2:15. \nFeatured Reader – Gail Thomas  \nPoet and teacher Gail Thomas has published four books: Odd Mercy (2016)\, Waving Back(2015)\, No Simple Wilderness: An Elegy for Swift River Valley(2001) andFinding the Bear(1997). \nOdd Mercy was chosen by Ellen Bass for the Charlotte Mew Prize of Headmistress Press\, and its “Little Mommy Sonnets” won Honorable Mention for the Tom Howard/ Margaret Prize for Traditional Verse. Also\, Waving Backwas named a Must Read for 2016 by the Massachusetts Center for the Book and Honorable Mention in the New England Book Festival. \nThomas’s work has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Beloit Poetry Journal\, Calyx\, The North American Review\, Hanging Loose\, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. Individual poems have won the Naugatuck Review’sNarrative Poetry Prize\, the Edward Hearst Prize\, and the Pat Schneider Prize. She was awarded residencies at The McDowell Colony in New Hampshire and Ucross in Wyoming. \nHer book\, No Simple Wilderness\, about the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir in the 1930s\, has been taught in college courses. As one of the original teaching artists for the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Elder Arts Initiative\, Thomas led workshops and collaborated with dancers\, musicians and storytellers in schools\, nursing homes\, hospitals and libraries across the state. \nThomas teaches\, speaks at conferences and poetry festivals\, and reads her work widely in community and academic settings. www.gailthomaspoet.com
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-gail-thomas
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns – Featured Reader S. Forrest Nomakeo
DESCRIPTION:Here’s how it works: The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers\, who can read for five minutes each; we also draw two names for 10-minute readings. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 2:15. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShirley Forrest Nomakeo received a B.S. in graphic design from Rivier College in Nashua\, N.H. She is the owner of a golf marketing business\, Western Mass Golf\, promoting golf at expos and via radio\, podcasts\, websites\, and print. She has written for her company’s publication\, Western Mass Golf Magazine\, and writes a daily blog about the process of writing a novel and getting it published. The Summer Palace\, a work of historical fiction\, is her first published novel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-s-forrest-nomakeo
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Readings,Straw Dog Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190106T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190106T160000
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - Featured Reader Michael J. Ponsor
DESCRIPTION:Michael A. Ponsor graduated from Harvard College in 1969\, spent two years at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar\, and received his J.D from Yale in 1975. In 1994\, President Bill Clinton appointed him a United States District Judge. \nPonsor has taught at Yale Law School\, Western New England School of Law\, and the University of Massachusetts. He has authored articles in The Boston Globe\, The Wall Street Journal\, the Federal Sentencing Reporter\, the American Bar Association Journal\, and the Western New England Law Review. In 2013\, the New York publisher Open Road Media released his first novel\, The Hanging Judge\, which went on to be a New York Times bestseller.  In 2017\, his second novel\, The One-Eyed Judge\, was published. He lives in Amherst\, Massachusetts and continues his judicial duties as a senior judge while working on his next novel. \nHere’s how it works: The featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers\, who can read for five minutes each; we also draw two names for 10-minute readings. If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 2:15.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-michael-j-ponsor
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181202T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181202T170000
DTSTAMP:20260613T114011
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SUMMARY:Writers Read/Hilltowns - featured reader Frances W. Henry
DESCRIPTION:Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHere’s how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by audience Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers—published or not—for five minutes each. Hint: If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15! \nFrances W. Henry \n\n\n\nFrances W. Henry was born and raised in Sag Harbor\, New York. She graduated from the New School for Social Research and earned an MBA from Harvard University. An executive and founder of nonprofits\, she now devotes herself to the visual and literary arts. She created East Branch Press in 2006\, which has issued three volumes of her essays. Henry’s first book of memoir was published by GP Putnam’s Sons in 1983. She lives in the Hilltowns of western Massachusetts with her husband Walter Korzec.
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-hilltowns-featured-reader-frances-w-henry
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T170000
DTSTAMP:20260613T114011
CREATED:20180914T181902Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Read - Featured Reader - Richard Wayne Horton
DESCRIPTION:Bring Your Poetry! Bring Your Prose! Find Your Public! Uplift Our Souls! \nHere’s how it works: A featured writer reads recent work and describes the journey to publication\, followed by audience Q & A. Then the floor opens to other writers—published or not—for five minutes each. Hint: If you want to read\, put your name in the hat before 3:15! \n  \nFeatured Reader – Richard Wayne Horton \nBio coming soon!
URL:https://strawdogwriters.org/event/writers-read-featured-reader-richard-wayne-horton
LOCATION:Belding Memorial Library\, 344 Main Street\, Ashfield\, 01330\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Mic
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